What do you think happens when you close the cover of a book? Most of us are self-centered enough to think that nothing happens in the book while we are not reading it. But according to Roderick Townley's The Great Good Thing when we close the book the stage lights go off, the back-up lights come on, and the characters go about their lives until the next time the book is opened. When we open the book again the characters all scramble to get to their places and act out what we are reading. Some characters don't do much between readers, after all they can only behave how they were written. But our heroine Princess Sylvie has many adventures and begins by breaking the first rule: Don't look up at the reader! This was a fun, light-weight read with some complex life questions thrown in and reinforced my belief that well-behaved women rarely make history.
Enjoy!
